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Friday, February 26, 2016

I KNOW FULL WELL THE THOUGHTS AND ATTITUDES OF YOUR HEART, SO IT IS WISE TO BE HONEST WITH ME.

When your heart overflows with Love and Joy, I rejoice with you and delight in you.

When you are rebellious and ungrateful, I continue to love you perfectly—even though your behavior is unacceptable.

The more you believe in Me—who I am and what I have done—the better your attitude will be.

When you are feeling ungrateful, you need to focus on the goal of your faith: the salvation of your soul.

No matter what you suffer in this life, your soul is absolutely secure.

You have an eternity of inexpressively wondrous Life reserved for you in heaven.

This glorious inheritance has been credited to your account ever since you trusted Me as your Savior-God.

As you ponder the wonders of your soul's salvation, you become free—free to receive Joy beyond description and full of Glory!

From " Jesus Lives " by Sarah Young

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"For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. HEBREWS 4:12

Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 1 PETER 1:8–9

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. PSALM 107:1

I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. JOHN 10:28

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

I AM TRAINING YOU TO HOLD IN YOUR HEART A DUAL FOCUS: MY CONTINUAL PRESENCE AND THE HOPE OF HEAVEN.

You'll find no deeper comfort than knowing I am with you always, both here on earth and throughout eternity in heaven.

You have known this great truth in your head for many years.

However, your heart is fickle and tends to chase after other gods.

Only as My Spirit helps you can you grasp the awesomeness of My Presence with you forever.

So trust Me to do in you what you could never do for yourself.

I am indeed with you—watching over you wherever you are, wherever you go.

Simply accept My Presence with you as reality: the deepest Reality.

Build your life on this absolute truth, which is like building your house on a rock.

Your heart and mind will wander away from Me, but My Spirit within can remind you to return.

You need only to ask the Holy Spirit to help you in this way.

He delights in being your Helper.

Rejoice, for I am with you not only in this life but in the life to come.

Let the promise of heaven flood your heart with My eternal Presence!

From " Jesus Lives " by Sarah Young

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"I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you." -GENESIS 28:15

Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. -MATTHEW 7:24

"I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you." - JOHN 14:16–17 NASB

"In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am." -JOHN 14:2–3

Sunday, February 21, 2016

People who think they don't need Me are in serious trouble, because they rely on their own insufficient abilities.

I am training you to depend on Me—your Strength.

Living in a fallen world can weigh you down.

However, as you keep looking to Me, I make your feet like the feet of a deer.

I lighten your load so much that you hardly notice the jagged rocks beneath your feet or the steepness of your ascent.

Before you know it, you are on the high places— with Me!

You need to remember that I am Sovereign.

I will not help you go along a path that is not My choice for you.

So it's vital to commit your way to Me, asking Me to lead you each step of the way.

This is how you collaborate with Me as I enable you to go on the heights.

From " Jesus Lives " by Sarah Young

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"The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights." -HABAKKUK 3:19

"Though youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly, Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary." - ISAIAH 40:30–31 NASB

"Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass." -PSALM 37:5 NKJV

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding." (Proverbs 3:5, NIV)

Lean on Him

Are you facing a situation that seems like it has no logical solution?

Sometimes we have to turn our minds off, stop trying to figure it all out, stop overanalyzing, and stop researching everything.

When you don't see the answer in the natural realm, it's time to stop leaning on your own understanding and choose to trust God.

Sometimes our minds can be a distraction to our "inner sensor" or that place inside where God speaks to our hearts.

Our minds can allow fear and dread to distract us from what God is trying to tell us.

That's why the scripture says that we can't lean on our own understanding.

We have to take time to shut off the distractions, shut off fear, and listen to what's going on inside of us.

That's where faith rises up.

That's where all of the sudden, you'll feel a spark of hope even when things look impossible.

Today, no matter what it looks like in the natural, choose to lean on Him.

Trust that He has favor in store for your future.

Trust that something good is about to happen.

Trust Him because He alone can take you to new levels in every area of your life!

A Prayer for Today "Father, today I choose to lean on You. I choose to trust that You are working on my behalf. I won't put my confidence in what I see, but I will trust in Your Word which remains true forever in Jesus' name. Amen."

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These ten great inspirational sayings about life come from diverse cultures and times. These sayings of inspiration represent the thread of enlightenment and compassion that has always run through the greatest among us, and are, to me, the best of the best.

This above all, to thine own self be true.- William Shakespeare

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.- Confucius

Happiness depends upon ourselves.- Aristotle

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.- Lao Tsu

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.- Chief Seattle

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.- Rabindranath Tagore

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.- St Francis of Assisi

There are no facts, only interpretations.- Friedrich Nietzsche

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.- Albert Einstein

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.- George Bernard Shaw

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.- Joseph Campbell

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.- Joseph Campbell

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.- Helen Keller

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.- Helen Keller

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.- Helen Keller

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. - Anonymous

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.- Confucius

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.- Marie Curie

Life is a long lesson in humility.- James M. Barrie

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.- William James

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.- John Lennon

No one knows what he can do until he tries.- Publilius Syrus

As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.- Mary Anne Radmacher

There are no facts, only interpretations.- Friedrich Nietzsche

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.- Rabindranath Tagore

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.- Theodore H. White

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain.- Vivian Green

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for that part of me you bring out.- Roy Croft

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the Spirit.- Kahlil Gibran

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.- Willa Cather

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.- St. Francis of Assisi